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As the days are getting shorter and festive lights begin to illuminate wintertime, Contemporary Applied Arts, home to works from Britain’s leading craftspeople, launch their annual seasonal selling exhibition. Present & Collect offers a curated selection of meaningful gifts at accessible price points, as well as high-value collectors’ pieces – all imbued with skill,
innovation and tradition.

We are proud winners of the Gallery TEN prize for The Scottish Glass Society’s annual exhibition.

The new glass panel titled “Ebb & Flow” is a well-conceived and designed work of the highest quality; it is both elegant and sophisticated. The combination of blown glass and kiln techniques is a highly skilled approach to a seemingly simple object. The narrative of the Scottish and Scandinavian landscape is put across beautifully.

The prize of a gallery show during 2018 will be a fitting culmination of Lindean Mill reaching their 40th year as glass makers based in Scotland and their continuing commitment to producing work to the highest possible standards.

This exhibition highlights the contemporary ranges of beautiful handmade functional tableware that is being produced across the UK. A chance to see and purchase our Optic range glasses, jugs and carafes as well as candleholders.

The dining table also include ranges of complementary table linen and utensils in wood and metal with furniture by leading makers.

These two talented women have created a beautiful exhibition in homage to Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. Theirs, The After Party, is an installation for 13 ‘invited guests’, each with their own table setting as sculptural objects made of glass.

The women ‘invited’ by the artists have been their role models and inspirational figures and I am honoured to have a place at the table.

Congratulations to Sebastian Barry who has won the eighth Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, for his epic American novel Days Without End.

Sebastian Barry received his £25,000 cheque and a specially-commissioned glass trophy depicting the rolling landscape of Sir Walter Scott’s Border country, from the Prize sponsor the Duke of Buccleuch.

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will be announced by its sponsor, Richard Buccleuch, at the Borders Book Festival on Saturday 17 June.

The 2017 shortlisted authors for the literary prize which includes a commissioned glass panel as well as £25,000 are Jo Baker,
Sebastian Barry, Charlotte Hobson, Hannah Kent, Francis Spufford, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain.

The Glass Glamour exhibition curated by Fiaz Elson, is a private show set in a domestic setting in Quenington Old Rectory, Cirencester at Lucy and David Abel Smith’s home. A group of 22 selected artists will be showing on Saturday 17th June, 6.00pm – 8.00pm, and Sunday 18th June 10.00 am – 12.00 noon.